NRA issues statement on Newtown

•December 21, 2012

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IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR AVAAZ - Members of the activist group Avaaz protest today's NRA press conference with a likeness of NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Jr., calling on NRA affiliates like Days Inn and Super 8 to get "out of bed" with the gun lobby, outside the Willard Hotel in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. (Paul Morigi / AP Images for Avaaz)

Protesters interrupted Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle

Association (NRA), as he issued a statement on the Newtown, Conn. massacre and gun control in Washington